Disposable batteries come dead last in pretty much all the aforementioned categories, which is why we're happy to see that Uniross, a company that develops and manufactures rechargable batteries, has released its range of "hybrid" Hybrio batteries in North America.

ENGADGET: Hybrio batteries bridge gap between disposables and rechargables

Will estate taxes come back from the dead in 30 states on Jan. 1?

FORBES: States Face $3 Billion Estate Tax Windfall If We Fall Off Fiscal Cliff

These things are said in utter shock and disdain as if God may come down and strike me dead for using Brand X in a cocktail.

FORBES: The Myth of the Top Shelf: Thinking Outside the bottle

One party gets clobbered in an election and the pundits declare it dead or dying, only for it to come roaring back in a cycle down the road sending the other party reeling.

FORBES: Marking The End Of An Era For Conservatives

By the time the two got talking, Chrysler was no longer the funky Detroit company that in the 1980s had come back from the dead through then chief executive Lee Iacocca's sheer flair.

ECONOMIST: The DaimlerChrysler emulsion

In parts of Africa, some believe that the spirit of a dead man may come to haunt his killer.

ECONOMIST: The spirits that move Africa

Stick a Rise Above pin in it, then cover with a Come Together cup: the payroll tax cut is good and dead.

FORBES: Happy Higher Payroll Taxes

His comments come the day after Abad was shot dead while on his way to a football match with his son in the city of Zaragoza on Sunday.

CNN: Basque voters urged to reject ETA

She described a "dead silence" in her home and told how she still felt she was waiting for Jay to come home.

BBC: Essex house party stabbing: Fourth murder suspect held